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Satellite Phones - the Ten Commandments

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Satellite Networks
16 August 2006
10759 views
  • Global
  • Satellite Phones
  • survey
Alright, Charlton Heston didn't exactly bring these ten statements down from Mount Sinai but there are lots of myths and there is plenty of misinformation about satellite phones. This has inspired San Diego-based All Road Communications to produce this list of the 'Top ten things you need to know about satellite phones' to help educate and inform those who may need to rent or buy one in the near future...

Five into two for 3G licences! Romania's long hot 3G summer continues

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Nicolae Oaca
Category: Trends & Forecasts
16 August 2006
14881 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • 3G
  • Romania
  • Cosmote
  • Telemobil
  • RCS RDS
On August 1, the deadline for buying competition documents, a press release from Romania's General Inspectorate for Communications and IT (IGCTI, the entity dealing with the 3G contest) announced five contenders for the last two 3G licences in Romania, bringing the number of 3G networks in the country to four. Taking into account this huge interest in the last two 3G licences in both the region and in Europe, the long hot summer is continuing for 3G in Romania.

Mexico opens up phone market - will Telmex suffer?

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
09 August 2006
13697 views
  • Regulation
  • Latin America
  • Mexico
  • Telmex
  • Cable TV
  • Eduardo Perez Motta

Mexico is proving to be one of the world's most difficult markets to expose to competition, due primarily to opposition from Mexico 's key fixed-line operator Telmex (Telefonos de Mexico).

Kon-Tiki replica completes Pacific crossing: uses Nera satellite terminal

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Alec Barton
Category: Satellite Networks
09 August 2006
11519 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Nera Satcom

Just a few days ago four Norwegians, one Swede and one Peruvian reached their destination of Tahiti on Tangaroa, a replica of explorer Thor Heyerdahl's famous Kon-Tiki raft...

Go west, young (Chinese) man

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
03 August 2006
10557 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Manufacturing
  • Chengdu
Western China is substantially under-populated compared to the rest of the country. In fact, on the map it doesn't look populated at all outside Chengdu. And yet, as Michael Schwartz explains, Chengdu is enjoying a real boom.

Alcatel wins EASSy contract

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Alec Barton
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
03 August 2006
10135 views
  • Cable
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • EASSy
  • Cables
Following on almost immediately from our report about the financing of the East African Submarine Cable project (EASSy), Developing Telecoms can report that Alcatel of France has won the EASSy contract par excellence...

Kenya grants new gateway licences while Sierra Leone threatens cuts

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
03 August 2006
14763 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Kenya
  • GSMA
  • Safaricom
  • Sierra Leone
  • Gateway
  • Celtel
The Kenyan Government has announced its decision to grant international gateway licences to the country's two leading mobile operators...

Movistar Chile makes Mobile Streams sole content provider

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
03 August 2006
10758 views
  • Latin America
  • Chile
  • Movistar
  • Content

Mobile Streams, a worldwide mobile content company, has been selected by Movistar Chile as exclusive provider for its white-brand polyphonic ringtones offering...

Romania's mobile interconnection game

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Dr Nicolae Oaca
Category: Trends & Forecasts
29 July 2006
14928 views
  • Regulation
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Interconnection
  • Romania
  • Government
A press release dated 10 July from Romania's regulatory body (National Agency for Regulation in Communications - ANRC) stated that ANRC had informed Vodafone Romania and Orange Romania of its obligation to reduce interconnection tariffs by 11.3% over four stages between September 1, 2006 and January 1, 2009, writes Dr Nicolae Oaca.

Earth station contract from Golden Telecom awaits Intersputnik

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Alec Barton
Category: Satellite Networks
26 July 2006
10547 views
  • Satellite
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • Golden Telecom

Intersputnik Holding, a subsidiary of the Intersputnik International Organisation of Space Communications, has won a tender to design, build and put into operation satellite earth stations for the Golden Telecom satellite network within the Russian Federation...

EASSy cable wins key global finance

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Alec Barton
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
26 July 2006
9543 views
  • Cable
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Finance
  • EASSy

Reflecting the more confident atmosphere surrounding negotiations over the future of the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy), two key sources of finance have indicated that they will support this project...

ITU, Thuraya step up communications role in disaster mitigation and relief

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Alec Barton
Category: Humanitarian Comms
21 July 2006
11681 views
  • Global
  • ITU
  • UAE
  • Thuraya

The ITU and Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company have concluded an agreement to provide portable satellite terminals to assist countries in disaster mitigation and relief.

RFS provides Guangdong dual-channel mobile TV

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
21 July 2006
11120 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • RFS
  • Mobile TV

Broadcast solutions group RFS is providing dual-channel mobile television service to the Southern Chinese province of Guangdong...

Maroc Telecom offers Huawei IPTV

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
20 July 2006
17993 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Huawei
  • Maroc Telecom
  • Morocco
  • IPTV

End-to-end Internet Protocol Television in Morocco is now a reality thanks to a solution commissioned for Maroc Telecom from Huawei Technologies Co...

Golden Telecom rolls out global broadband in Tatarstan

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
20 July 2006
9706 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • Golden Telecom

Golden Telecom, which provides integrated telecommunications and Internet services throughout Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, is implementing its strategy of rolling-out global broadband access in the Russian Republic of Tatarstan...

Convergence the key to ICT Growth says Indian Regulation boss

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Blogs & Opinion
15 July 2006
10682 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • ICT
  • Convergence
  • APT

ICT can be the new telecoms sector, according to India' s Telecom Regulatory Authority Chairman Nripendra Misra. Phenomenal growth in ICT is possible and a key catalyst is the increasing important role of convergence...

Iridium tracks tsunami buoys for NOAA

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Editorial staff
Category: Humanitarian Comms
07 July 2006
13388 views
  • Global
  • Iridium

Monitoring of tsunami waves and conditions is set to improve as Iridium has won the contract to provide satellite data links for the 31 ocean buoys that the US Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Data Center is now deplo yi ng.

Fast cars, Brazilian cellular - and the Rolling Stones?

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
07 July 2006
9878 views
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Mobile
  • Entertainment

Carriers, services providers and end users in Brazil are discovering the benefits of using licence-free radio frequencies through a relatively inexpensive wireless broadband solution...

Wireless - transcending the digital divide

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Dr Klaus-D Kohrt, Senior Vice-President, Siemens Communications
Category: Wireless Networks
07 July 2006
13875 views
  • Global
  • Wireless
  • Digital Divide
  • Siemens
It seems only natural that we start our analysis of the Digital Divide with one of the giants of world telecoms. Dr Klaus-D Kohrt, a vice-president of Siemens Communications, explains the role of wireless technology - and makes some predictions.

Mobile development in Africa

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Gabriel Solomon, GSM Association
Category: Trends & Forecasts
07 July 2006
13024 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • GSM
  • Health
  • Celtel
In the traditionally strident and forceful tones of the GSM Association, Gabriel Solomon, the Association's Director, Government and Regulatory Affairs, reviews the part played to date by mobiles in bridging the digital divide. Gabriel Solomon then demonstrates that even greater growth can be achieved by removing regulations and restrictions. This upbeat commentary on the digital divide ends with a warning to impose a realistic price structure if emerging markets are going to develop to their full potential.

Nokia Siemens Networks - the implications

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Vendors
02 July 2006
12535 views
  • Service Providers
  • Global
  • Mergers
  • Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia and Siemens will be merging the Networks Business Group of Nokia and the carrier-related operations of Siemens into a single company to be known as Nokia Siemens Networks. This review spells out the strengths and opportunities of the new company, as Nokia and Siemens visualise them, and goes on to report on other key developments from Nokia...

India not enough - Bharti looks overseas

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
02 July 2006
13822 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Vodafone
  • Bharti Airtel
  • SingTel

Sunil Mittal, chairman of Bharti Airtel, is set to expand his company's subscriber base well outside India .

Open access for EASSy agreed by all - what about Merali?

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
02 July 2006
10602 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • EASSy
  • East Africa

Obstacles which appeared to threaten the very future of the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy) have been overcome at a meeting between Nepad's ICT advisers and several countries involved with EASSy but which had a different economic model for running the project...

Long hot summer for 3G in Romania - last two licences up for bidding

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Dr Nicolae Oacã
Category: Trends & Forecasts
02 July 2006
14433 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • 3G
  • Romania
  • licenses
  • Cosmote
  • Telemobil

On 21 June Romania's president of the General Inspectorate for Communications and IT (IGCTI), Marius Catalin Marinescu, announced the start of a beauty contest, the competitive process for the last two 3G licences in Romania bringing the number of 3G networks in the country to four).

Yes, there is hope for Africa's Net

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Nyasha Mutsekwa, Oracle
Category: Humanitarian Comms
02 July 2006
11181 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Oracle

Nyasha Mutsekwa, a project manager for Oracle, explains how ICT is boosting e-Learning in Africa...

Cable & Wireless selects Nokia GSM for British Virgin Islands

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
22 June 2006
13076 views
  • Latin America
  • Caribbean
  • Nokia
  • GSM
  • Cable and Wireless
  • British Virgin Islands

Cable & Wireless and Nokia will be expanding their existing global agreement to supply and deployment a GSM network in the British Virgin Islands...

Sony Ericsson K510i phone arrives in Middle East

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Alec Barton
Category: Devices & Platforms
21 June 2006
9483 views
  • Devices
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Sony Ericsson
  • Bluetooth

Sony Ericsson has announced a new phone in the Middle East  - the K510i...

RFS demonstrates fast bit-rate 'fibre-to-the-tower-top' solution

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
20 June 2006
10458 views
  • Global
  • Wireless
  • RFS

Radio Frequency Systems has recently demonstrated a remote radio head unit which the company claims to exhibit the fastest bit-rate of any 'fibre-to-the-tower-top' solution...

Morocco loyal to payphone for overseas calls

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
20 June 2006
9990 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Morocco
  • Payphones

GSM penetration in Morocco topped the 40% mark last year - and yet some 80% of GSM users are still using payphone services for national calls.

Nokia supports Omnitel in HSPDA launch

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
15 June 2006
9566 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • 3G

Palanga in Lithuania is witnessing the launch of High Speed Data Packet Access services at the hands of the Baltic's largest telecoms company, Omnitel.

Third-time-lucky for MTN mobiles in Ghana

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Alec Barton
Category: Operators
15 June 2006
11218 views
  • Service Providers
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Ghana
  • MTN

It took US$5.526 million and a major merger, but MTN's acquisition of Scancom Ghana now means that it has established a mobile presence in Ghana - at the third attempt...

 

Avea selects Schema to better its GSM Network

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
14 June 2006
14288 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Turkey
  • Avea
  • Schema

One of Turkey 's leading wireless operators, Avea, has chosen a network optimisation solution supplied by Schema and aimed at increasing network capacity and improving quality of service, writes Michael Schwartz.

AirMagnet introduces VoWLAN analysis tool

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Wireless Networks
14 June 2006
8465 views
  • Global

Concilium Technologies has launched AirMagnet's Vo-Fi Analyser, a dedicated Voice-over-Wireless-LAN (Vo-WLAN) analysis tool...

Orange Romania launches 3G - two more licences to come

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Nicolae Oaca
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
13 June 2006
14045 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • 3G
  • Orange
  • Romania
  • UMTS

On June 6 Orange  Romania launched 3G services in Bucharest and Timisoara using UMTS technology...

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